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Payvand
October 28, 2013
New from Nortia Press, LOVE AND POMEGRANATES: ARTISTS AND WAYFARERS ON IRAN (2013) brings together voices of Americans, Iranian-Americans, Europeans and Iranians in a rare collection, seven years in the making, by ordinary people who have found friendships, mentors, and muses in IranÃâà...
The Stanford Daily
March 9, 2013
On March 9, Ambassador John Limbert, formerly a deputy assistant Secretary of State and a senior diplomat, sat down with The Daily to talk about his life in the Foreign Service. Held captive for 444 days in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Limbert spoke during his ordeal with then-Iranian Deputy DefenseÃâà...
Payvand
February 7, 2011
John W. Limbert Jr., the embassy's political officer at the time, said the takeover didn't seem so serious at first - and, from what its planners said in later years, it wasn't meant to be. He compared it to "a 1970s-style sit-in. Some of us remember those days: We marched into the university president's office, weÃâà...
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